Suicide rate surges in Kyiv – National Police

According to Kryshchenko, suicides usually occur once or twice a week.

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Chief of the National Police's Kyiv department Andriy Kryshchenko says the number of suicides in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, has increased significantly.

"There is a surge in suicides. Two or three per day. There were even five suicides in one day: two shot themselves, two hanged and one jumped out," he said in an interview with the Ukrainian news outlet 112.ua.